The Dickinson press., 1887-04-23

Alexander Mitchell, of Milwaukee.
president of the Chicago. Milwaukee
Il st. Paul road, died at 2:45 p. m.
Tuesday, at the Hoffman house, New
York, of Pneumonia.
Mrs. b. Smoot, of Topeka, Kan, a
bride of eight weeks, committed sui
eide by taking a dose of "Rough OH
Rats" Her husband is an engineer
on the railroad. She was a beautiful
girl of II years. lie was SO years old.
The cause of the act is a mystery, as
| her husband was kind and devoted.
Every business place in the village
of Ainswortll, Iowa was destroyed by
fire last Saturday. Twcnty-sevcn
structures are in ruins. Many people
are destitute, us the flames spread
with such rapidity tina. they were un-
able to move their effects. Ainsworth
is situated on the Southwestern road.
Its population is 800.
1t developed at the inquest held on
the body OF Henry Sengbusch. at Mil.
wankce, Wis. who died in school
while being chastised by his teacher.
George Werner, that the boys neck
had been broken. The coroner's Jury
returned Il verdict holding Werner
responsible for the death.
All the girls in the carding depart.
mcmt of the Menasha wooden mills
went on a strike. The proprietors of
the mill ordered all the windows fac
ing the street painted recently so
that tina girls employed would attend
strictly to business and not be tempt-
ed to watch passcrs by. The girls re-
fuse to return unless the paint is re.
moved.
The president has made the follow
ing appointments: Alexander l.. Lam
ton. of Georgia. to be envoy cxtraor-
binary and minister p!cnipotentiary
to Austro-1Iungary; Newman a. Nc
Cornell. of Tennessee, to he chief ils.
tlce OF the supreme court of Montana
territory, and George S. Peters. of
Ohio, to he an attorney of the United
States for the territory of Utah.
a Dubois, Pa, special says: Last
Friday evening a young man named
Bradley Breath. aged about 10. was
shot and instantly killed by an Ital-
ian r%ailroader at Mahony. The e
pom used was Il shot gun. the contents
of which struck Breath i'm the side
and shoulder. Breath was with a
party Of loggers, who were intoxi.
Gated and tormented the Italian and
his companions.
a cyclone visited the vicinity of
Norfolk, VA, last Tuesday with fatal
results. Its track was about 100
yards wide. The house of John
Wright, six miles north of Suffolk,
was completely demolished. MI.
Wright, his wife, young sister and
James Luke We're in the house. Mrs.
Wright and Mr.. Luke were killed,
the young girl fatally injured and Mr..
Wright seriously hurt. Much dam
age was done to property along the
path of the cyclone.
Successful experiments have been
made at Metz with u mvigable ba-
loon propelled by IN electric motor.
The Augsburg Allgemeinc Zeitny
says the balloon is the invention of Il
German engineer named Welker, who
for some time vas employed i'll
America where he perfected his dis
covery. The German government,
the paper says. has bought the inven-
ton, paying for it 1.0OO.OOO marks, and
another 100000 which is to be paid
in installments. The speed of the
balloon exceeds that of railroad travel,
and it may be stopped and directed ut
will, moving against winds. The resi-
dents of Metz are now nightly startled
by electric illuminations lowering at
great height over their houses.
On Friday of last week a cyclone
visited the eastern part of Ohio and
wrought devastation over a section
of country extending from st. Clairs-
willie, o., to a point as far east as
Wheeling, w. Va. The storm was
first felt at st. Clairsville at 3:l5 p. m.
1t appeared to be travelling from the
west and in the shape of a funnel, re-
sembling in appearance dense black
smoke. The cone was downward and
could be plainly traced over Its track
by the destruction it left. Houses
we're demolished, trees snapped off
like pipe stems, horses and cattle
Frustrated and carried bodily hun
dreds of yards by the gale, and the
air was darkened by the clouds of fly
ing debris. The loss in st. Clairs-
vile will reach $4,000 The West
ern Union wires and poles were all
blown down. Horses hitched in the
street were blown about like chatf and
the vehicles demolished. n scant-
ling sailed through the air for a mile
and cut us clean Il hole in the two
| walls of a brick house us a cannon
ball would have done. Shingles were
driven through Notwithstanding like
arrows. Several families We're rem
dered homeless. The Lafayette rink
was engaged by the city authorities
as Il temporary shelter for the home
less. 1t is safe to say that the aggre-
gate loss will exceed 1000, 600.
a dispatch from Zanzibar, Africa.
says a Somali trader from the Uganda
country has arrived here bearing adj
vices from Emin Bey. He was estab-
lished, when the trader left, at Wade
lai north OF the Albert Nyanza. He
had two small steamers plying on the
White Nile and OH the lake. In No
vember Emin Bey visited King Un-
yoro, which was a six days journey
from Uganda. Emin Bey was accom-
panied on this journey by DR.. Vita
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